Curriculum Vita Patricia Cukor-Avila

WORK CONTACT INFORMATION University of North Texas Department of Linguistics, College of Information 1155 Union Circle #311068 Denton, TX 76203-5017 [email protected]

EDUCATION 1995 Ph.D. University of Michigan; Linguistics 1984 MA Texas A&M University; Spanish 1977 BA Texas A&M University; Spanish major, French minor

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS 2018- Professor, Linguistics Program, College of Information, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 2016-2018 Professor and Interim Chair, Linguistics Program, College of Information, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 2014-2016 Associate Professor and Director, Linguistics Program, College of Information, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 2008-2014 Associate Professor, Dept. of Linguistics and Technical Communication, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 2001-2008 Associate Professor, Dept. of English, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 1996-2001 Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 1994-1995 Lecturer, Dept. of English, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 1993-1994 ESL/Bilingual Instructor, Anderson Elementary School, Conroe, TX 1992-1993 Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Education, University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX 1992-1993 Adjunct Lecturer, Humanities Division, Kingwood College, Kingwood, TX 1991 Adjunct Lecturer, Humanities Division, North Harris College, Aldine, TX 1989-1991 Adjunct Lecturer, Dept. of English and Language and Culture Center, University of Houston, Houston, TX 1988-1989 Teaching Assistant, Program in Linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 1987-1988 Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Romance Languages, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 1987 Instructor (ESL, GED), Community Education, College Station, TX 1986-1987 Lecturer, English Language Institute, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 1985-1986 Lecturer, Dept. of Modern Languages, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 1982-1984 Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Modern Languages, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

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OTHER INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES Summer 2019 American Dialect Society Professor; 2019 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Institute, University of California, Davis.

Spring 2003 2-week course on African American English taught for students in the English Applied Linguistics doctoral program at the Univ. of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary.

Summer 1993 Lecturer, Department of English, Oklahoma State University program at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, México.

CONSULTING 2002-2005 Linguistics consultant (1% effort) for a National Institute of Health (NIH) grant, “Narrative in African Americans and Caucasians with Aphasia,” awarded to Dr. Gloria Streit Olness, University of Texas at Dallas, Callier Center for Communication Disorders. 1995 ESL consultant for Decatur ISD, Decatur, TX. 1993 Alternative Teacher Certification Program, Region IV Education Service Center, Houston, TX.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE Sociolinguistics; African American Vernacular English; Language Variation and Change; Dialectology; English as a Second Language; Bilingualism/Bilingual Education; Spanish

SCHOLARLY, CREATIVE, AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS) Bailey, Guy, Natalie Maynor, and Patricia Cukor-Avila, eds. (1991). The Emergence of Black English: Texts and Commentary. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

PUBLICATIONS (ARTICLES IN JOURNALS AND EDITED VOLUMES) Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Ashley Balcazar (2019). “Exploring grammatical variation in a corpus of regional African American language.” In “Exploring African American Language in the Nation’s Capital: Studies with the Corpus of Regional African American English,” ed. by Tyler Kendall and Charlie Farrington. Special issue, American Speech 94, no. 1: 36-53.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (2018). “A variationist approach to studies of language regard.” Language Variation and Change: Regard and Contact, ed. by Betsy E. Evans, Erica Benson, and James Stanford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 31-61.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (2017). “The effect of small Ns and gaps in contact on panel survey data.” Panel Studies of Variation and Change, ed. by Suzanne E. Wagner and Isabelle Buchstaller. New York: Routledge Ltd, 210-45.

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Jeon, Lisa and Patricia Cukor-Avila (2016). “Urbanicity and language variation and change: Mapping dialect perceptions in and of Seoul.” Cityscapes and Perceptual Dialectology: Global Perspectives on Non-Linguists Knowledge of the Dialect Landscape, ed. by Jennifer Cramer and Chris Montgomery. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 97-116.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (2015). “Rural Texas African American vernacular English.” Oxford Handbook of African American Language, ed. by Sonja Lanehart. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 181-200.

Jeon, Lisa and Patricia Cukor-Avila (2015). “‘One country, one language?’ Mapping perceptions of dialects in South Korea.” Dialectologia 14: 17-46.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (2013). “Real and apparent time.” Handbook of Language Variation and Change, ed. by Jack Chambers and Natalie Shilling. Boston: Wiley- Blackwell, 239-62.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (2012). “Some structural consequences of diffusion.” Language in Society 41:1-26.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia, Lisa Jeon, Patricia C. Rector, Chetan Tiwari, and Zak Shelton (2012). “Texas – It’s like a whole nuther country”: Mapping Texans’ perceptions of dialect variation in the Lone Star state.” Texas Linguistics Forum 55, Proceedings of the 20th Annual Symposium About Language and Society – Austin, 10-19.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (2011). “The interaction of transmission and diffusion in the spread of linguistic forms.” University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Selected Papers from NWAV 39. 17: 41-49.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (2005). “Researching naturally occurring speech.” The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Second Edition, ed. by Keith Brown, section editor Miriam Meyerhoff, 556-63. Oxford: Elsevier Limited.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (2003). “The complex grammatical history of African American and White vernaculars in the South.” English in the Southern United States, ed. by Stephen Nagle and Sara Sanders, 85-102. Cambridge: CUP.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (2002). “‘She say,” “she go,” “she be like”: Verbs of quotation over time in African American Vernacular English.’” American Speech 77: 3-31.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (2001). “Co-existing grammars: The relationship between the evolution of African American Vernacular English and White Vernacular English in the South.” Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English, ed. by Sonja Lanehart, 93-127. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

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Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (2001). “The effects of the race of the interviewer on sociolinguistic fieldwork.” Journal of Sociolinguistics. 5.2: 254-70.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (2000). “Revisiting the observer’s paradox.” American Speech. 75:253-4.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (1999). “Stativity and copula absence in AAVE: Grammatical constraints at the sub-categorical level.” The Journal of English Linguistics. 27.4: 341-55.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (1997). “An ethnolinguistic approach to the study of Rural Southern AAVE.” Language Variety in the South Revisited, ed. by Cynthia Bernstein, Thomas Nunnally, and Robin Sabino, 447-62. University of Alabama Press.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (1997). “Change and stability in the use of verbal -s over time in AAVE.” Englishes Around the World. Vol. 1: General Studies, British Isles, North America. Studies in Honour of Manfred Görlach, ed. by Edgar W. Schneider, 295-306. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (1996). “The spread of urban AAVE: A case study.” Sociolinguistic Variation: Data, Theory, and Analysis. Selected papers from NWAV-23 at Stanford ed. by Jennifer Arnold, Renee Blake, Brad Davidson, Scott Schwenter, and Julie Solomon, 469-85. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

Carey, Kathy and Patricia Cukor-Avila (1996). “By me bein’ pregnant I would stay sick all the time: Causal by and from in African American Vernacular English.” in Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society ed. by Jan Johnson, Matthew L. Juge, and Jeri L. Moxley, 46-57. Berkeley: University of California, Department of Linguistics.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (1995). “An approach to sociolinguistic fieldwork: A site study of rural AAVE in a Texas community.” English World-Wide. 16.2: 159-93.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (1995). “Grammaticalization in AAVE.” Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society, ed. by Jocelyn Ahlers, Leela Bilmes, Joshua S. Guenter, Barbara A. Kaiser, and Ju Namkung, 401-13. Berkeley: University of California, Department of Linguistics.

Bailey, Guy, Natalie Maynor, and Patricia Cukor-Avila (1989). “Variation in subject-verb concord in Early Modern English.” Language Variation and Change. 1: 285-300.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (1989). “Determining change in progress vs. stable variation in two studies of Black English Vernacular.” The SECOL Review. XIII (No. 2): 92-124.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (1988). “The effect of accent on speech and personality judgments.” Papers in Applied Linguistics Michigan (PALM). 3 (No. 2): 1-20.

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Hadaway, Nancy L. and Patricia Cukor-Avila (1987). “Dual language input, dual language output: Writing in an elementary bilingual program.” Papers in Applied Linguistics Michigan (PALM). 3 (No 1): 46-63.

Hadaway, Nancy L. and Patricia Cukor-Avila (1986). “Composing in two languages: A bilingual child’s response.” Proceedings of the Western Social Science Meeting of the National Social Science Association. 1: 41-62. Hadaway, Nancy L. and Patricia Cukor-Avila (1986). “Composing in two languages: A bilingual child’s response.” San Antonio, Texas: Western Social Science Meeting of the National Social Science Association. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 280 288).

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (2020). “The architecture of language change: Evidence from a panel survey.” Panel Studies on Language Variation and Change, ed. by Karen V. Beaman and Isa Buchstaller. NY: Routledge Ltd.

BOOK REVIEWS Cukor-Avila, Patricia (2001). Review of John McWhorter “Spreading the Word: Language and Dialect in America.” Journal of English Linguistics. 29: 370-73.

ONLINE COURSES Cukor-Avila, Patricia. and Shobhana Chelliah (2004). WebCT course: LING 4040/5040. [The course content, including lessons, exercises, problems, and quizzes is all original material].

Cukor-Avila, Patricia. and Shobhana Chelliah (2003) WebCT course: LING 3060. [The course content, including lessons, exercises, problems, and quizzes is all original material].

UNDER REVIEW Peak, Alexandra, Patricia Cukor-Avila, and Darrin Miller. “Snakes, sirens, and sex – A metaphorical analysis of penis and vagina terms.”

BOOKS IN PROGRESS Bailey, Guy and Patricia Cukor-Avila. The Springville Project: Explorations in the Synchronic Approach to Language Change. (4 of 9 chapters completed).

WORK IN PROGRESS Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (revise and resubmit). “Another look at the Group and the individual.” Language Variation and Change.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey. “Residual zeros: Unanalyzed zero forms in accounts of copula deletion.”

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Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey. “The GAP EFFECT in quantitative sociolinguistics.”

Cukor-Avila, Patricia, Lisa Jeon, and Patricia C. Rector. “‘Boots an’ Jeans and Mexican Slang’: Texans’ perceptions of dialect variation from the Panhandle to the Rio Grande Valley.”

Jeon, Lisa and Patricia Cukor-Avila. “Analyzing and mapping dialect perceptions with Geographic Information Systems: A variationist approach.”

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (REFEREED) Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey. (January 2020). “What is a sociolinguistic interview?” American Dialect Society (ADS). New Orleans, LA.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Kristyne Wahlert. (October 2019). “General extenders and stuff like that in African American Language.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV48). University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia. (September 2019). “The evolution of a vernacular: Insights into the motivations for linguistic change through longitudinal case study research.” UK Language Variation and Change (UKLVC12). Queen Mary University, London, UK.

Wahlert, Kristyne, Ashley Balcazar, and Patricia Cukor-Avila. (May 2019) “The passive side of sexual violence: A linguistic analysis of the ICTY ‘Landmark Cases.’” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL). Boca Raton, FL.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey. (January 2019). “Linguistic insights from a longitudinal case study.” American Dialect Society (ADS). New York, NY.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey. (October 2018). “The architecture of language change: Evidence from a panel survey.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV47). NYU, New York, NY.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia, Kimi King, and Katie Crowder. (July 2018). “Unraveling the language of sexual violence.” International Congress on Linguists (ICL20). Cape Town, South Africa.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia. (January 2018). “Exploring Grammatical Variation in Corpus of Regional African American Language.” Linguistic Society of America (LSA). Salt Lake City, Utah.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Patricia C. Rector. 2018. “Variation in African American Vernacular English narrative syntax.” American Dialect Society (ADS). Salt Lake City, Utah.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey. (November 2017). “Residual Zeros: Unanalyzed Zero Forms in Accounts of Copula Deletion.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 46). University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.

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Robinson, Melissa, Alexis Palmer, and Patricia Cukor-Avila. (November 2017). “A man needs a female like a fish needs a lobotomy: Innovative social categorization through adjectival nominalization.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 46). University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.

Peak, Alexandra and Patricia Cukor-Avila (July 2017). “The clam and skin flute: An EEG and eye-tracking study of emotional language processing of genitalia terms.” 15th International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Peak, Alexandra, Patricia Cukor-Avila, and Darrin Miller (April 2017). “Love is a battlefield, penis as a weapon, and vagina as a casualty of war: Persistence of gender boundaries in conceptual metaphors for penis and vagina.” Lavender Languages and Linguistics 24, Nottingham, UK.

Peak, Alexandra and Patricia Cukor-Avila (January 2017). “‘Real-life Georgia O’Keefe Painting’, ‘Furburger’, ‘Mighty Man Noodle’, and ‘Vlad the Impaler’: Conceptual Metaphors for Vagina and Penis.” American Dialect Society (ADS), Austin, TX.

Bailey, Guy, Patricia Cukor-Avila, and Tom Wikle (November 2016). “Vernacular maintenance (or the lack thereof) and the apparent time construct.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 45). Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.

Peak, Alexandra and Patricia Cukor-Avila (November 2016). “‘Real-life Georgia O’Keefe Painting’, ‘Furburger’, ‘Mighty Man Noodle’, and ‘Vlad the Impaler’: Conceptual Metaphors for Vagina and Penis.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 45). Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (October 2015). “The GAP EFFECT in quantitative sociolinguistics.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 44). University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

Jeon, Lisa, Patricia Cukor-Avila, and Chetan Tiwari (October 2015). “Analyzing and mapping sociolinguistic data with Geographic Information Systems.” Workshop, New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 44). University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (September 2015). “Growing INTO and IN a vernacular: A quantitative analysis of individual variation over time.” UK Language Variation and Change (UKLVC 10). York University, York, UK.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (March 2015). “Linguistic Variation in Groups and Individuals.” Rice Linguistics Society. Rice University, Houston, TX.

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Bailey, Guy and Patricia Cukor-Avila (October 2014). “Quantitative analysis of the linguistic individual.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 43). University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (August 2014). “The interaction of age and interview context in sociolinguistic fieldwork.” Methods in Dialectology XV. University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Jeon, Lisa, Patricia Cukor-Avila, Chris Montgomery, and Patricia C. Rector (August 2014). “Integrating perceptual dialectology and sociolinguistics with Geographic Information Systems.” Workshop. Methods in Dialectology XV. University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Jeon, Lisa, Patricia Cukor-Avila, and Patricia C. Rector (October 2013). “Mapping dialect perceptions in a variationist framework.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 42). University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia, Lisa Jeon, and Patricia C. Rector (September 2013). “A variationist approach to perceptual dialectology.” UK Language Variation and Change (UKLVC 9). University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (July 2013). “Temporal reference and verb morphology in the narratives of African American Vernacular English speakers.” International Congress of Linguists (ICL19). Geneva, Switzerland.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (April 2013). “Mapping linguistic diversity across Texas.” American Association of Geographers (AAG). Los Angeles, CA.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia. and Patricia C. Rector (March 2013). “Hick, Hillbilly, Cowboy, Redneck: Mapping Perceived Stereotypes and Linguistic Diversity across Texas.” American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL). Dallas, TX.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia, Lisa Jeon, and Patricia C. Rector (January 2013). “Texas twang and Southern drawl: How Texans perceive regional variation from the Panhandle to the Rio Grande Valley.” American Dialect Society (ADS). Boston, MA.

Montgomery, Chris, Patricia Cukor-Avila, Betsy Evans, Dennis Preston, Danny Long and P. Stoeckle (October 2012). “A Geographical Information Systems (GIS) approach to perceptual dialectology data.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 41). University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN.

Jeon, Lisa and Patricia Cukor-Avila (August 2012). “Urbanicity and language variation and change: Mapping dialect perceptions in and of Seoul.” Sociolinguistics Symposium 19. Berlin, Germany.

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Cukor-Avila, Patricia (July 2012). “Texas – it’s like a whole nuther country”: Mapping Texans’ perceptions of dialect variation in the Lone Star State.” 7th Congress of Dialectology and Geolinguistics (SIDG). Vienna, Austria.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia, Lisa Jeon, Patricia Rector, and Zak Shelton (April 2012). “Texas – it’s like a whole nuther country”: Mapping Texans’ perceptions of dialect variation in the Lone Star State.” 20th Symposium about Language and Society (SALSA). University of Texas at Austin. Austin, TX.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (October 2011). “Structural ambiguity and the evolution of African American English.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 40). Georgetown University. Washington, D.C. Cukor-Avila, Patricia (September 2011). “Some structural consequences of diffusion.” UK Language Variation and Change 8 (UKLVC). Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (August 2011). “To count or not to count.” Methods in Dialectology 14. University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (November 2010). “The interaction of transmission and diffusion in the spread of linguistic forms.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 39). University of San Antonio, San Antonio, TX.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (November 2008). “Another look at the group and the individual.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 37). Rice University. Houston, TX.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (November 2006). “The evolution of the AAVE copula in the 20th century.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 35). The Ohio State University. Columbus, OH.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Bonnie Sbaiti (January 2006). “Are we fixin’ to grammaticalize?” American Dialect Society (ADS). Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Shobhana Chelliah (October 2005). “The path to blended learning: The University of North Texas experience.” WebCT Texas Users Conference, San Antonio, TX. [Note: this was a joint presentation with other members of the Blended Learning Project team].

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Erica Lux (October 2004). “We’re so bad, we’re so cool”: Intensifier use in 1908s and 1990s teen movies and TV dramas.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 33). University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI.

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Cukor-Avila, Patricia (August 2004). “Tracing the path from will to gonna in African American Vernacular English.” International Association of University Professors of English (IAUPE). University of British Columbia. Vancouver, B.C.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (October 2003). “I be done lef’ the windows down an’ it be done rained all over it”: An analysis of ‘sequential be done’ in rural AAVE.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 32). University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Aubrey Hargis (January 2003). “Behind the Magic Screen: Cultural Values and Linguistic Prejudice.” American Dialect Society (ADS). Atlanta, Georgia.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (October 2002). “Tracing the path from will to gonna in African American Vernacular English.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 31). Stanford University. Palo Alto, California. Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Dianne Markley (January 2002). “If you don’t sound like me then you must not be as good as I am: Linguistic security and the decision to hire.” American Dialect Society (ADS). San Francisco, California.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (October 2001). “The effects of topic and setting on sociolinguistic fieldwork.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 30). North Carolina State University. Raleigh, North Carolina.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (July 2001). “Change over time in the use of verbs of quotation in African American Vernacular English.” U.K. Language Variation and Change 3 (UKLVC). University of York. York, U.K.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (January 2001). “‘She say,” “she go,” “she be like”: Verbs of quotation over time in African American Vernacular English.’” American Dialect Society (ADS). Washington, D.C.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (October 2000). “Linguistic diversity in the workplace: How regional accent affects employment decisions.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 29). Michigan State University. East Lansing, Michigan.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (October 2000). “The stability of constraints on copula absence over time.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 29). Michigan State University. East Lansing, Michigan.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (April 2000). “When do individual vernaculars become stable?” Sociolinguistics Symposium 2000. University of the West of England, Bristol, U.K.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (January 2000). “Style shifting revisited: Informant roles across interview contexts.” American Dialect Society (ADS). Chicago, Illinois.

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Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (October 1999). “The role of habituality and stativity in the evolution of AAVE verb systems.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 28). Toronto, Canada.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (August 1999). “Constructing rural and urban identities through speech: An ethnolinguistic analysis of community language.” Tenth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology. Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (August 1999). “The consequences of style shifting.” Tenth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology. Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (June 1999). “Reordering the constraints on copula absence in African American Vernacular English.” Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. Aix-en- Provence, France.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (November 1998). “All in the family: Grammatical evidence form a century of linguistic contact in Southern African American and White English Vernaculars.” International Conference on World Englishes. University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Urbana, Illinois.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (September 1998). “Co-existing grammars: A social and historical overview of the relationship between the evolution of African American Vernacular English grammar and the grammar of Southern White English Vernaculars.” Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American Vernacular English. University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (January 1998). “Apparent time, real time, and over time: Approaches to the temporal dimension of language change.” Linguistic Society of America (LSA). New York, New York.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and G. Bailey (January 1998). “The morphology of past tense in AAVE.” American Dialect Society (ADS). New York, New York.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (November 1997). “A preliminary typology of site studies.” South Central American Dialect Society. Dallas, Texas.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (October 1997). “The second stage of copula reanalysis in AAVE.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 26). Université Laval, Québec, Québec City, Canada.

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Cukor-Avila, Patricia and G. Bailey (October 1997). “Grammatical ambiguity and grammatical reanalysis in AAVE.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 26). Université Laval, Québec, Québec City, Canada.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and G. Bailey. (February 1997). “Quantitative sociolinguistics in an ethnographic context.” Languaging: The Ninth Annual Conference on Linguistics and Literature. Denton, Texas.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (March 1996). “The long and the short of it: The importance of longitudinal studies in sociolinguistic research.” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL). College Station, Texas.

Carey, Kathy and Patricia Cukor-Avila (February 1996). “Preposition usage in African American Vernacular English: What it reveals about semantic extension.” Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley, California.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (October 1995). “The loss of a grammatical feature over time: The case of verbal -s in AAVE.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 24). University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Carey, Kathy and P. Cukor-Avila (October 1995). “Some propositions on prepositions: A semantic analysis of preposition usage in rural AAVE.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 24). University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (February 1995). “Grammaticalization in AAVE.” Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley, California.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (October 1994). “The spread of urban AAVE: A case study.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 23). Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (April 1994). “Historical connections and recent innovations in Southern AAVE.” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL). Memphis, Tennessee.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (April 1993). “An ethnolinguistic approach to the study of rural Southern AAVE.” LAVIS II. Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (October 1992). “The present state of BEV’s past.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 21).The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (October 1992). “Sociocultural contexts of style.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 21). The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Gut Bailey (April 1992). “The acquisition of a vernacular.” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL). Gainesville, Florida.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (April 1991). “The evidence for convergence.” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL). Knoxville, Tennessee.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (November 1990). “An approach to sociolinguistic fieldwork.” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL). Tampa, Florida.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (October 1990) “Narrative -s in rural BEV.” New Ways of Analyzing (Variation NWAV 19). University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (November 1989). “Verbal -s as a narrative marker?” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL). Atlanta, Georgia.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (September 1989). “Investigating sound changes in Southern Black English Vernacular.” American Dialect Society (ADS). Denton, Texas.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (May 1989). “BEV and the Southern shift.” International Conference on Linguistic Approaches to Phonetics. The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (March 1989). “The urbanization of rural BEV.” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL). Norfolk, Virginia.

Swales, John and Patricia Cukor-Avila (March 1989). “Investigating the writing needs of research students.” TESOL. San Antonio, Texas.

Bailey, Guy, Patricia Cukor-Avila, and Natalie Maynor (October 1988). “NP marking in the Southern vernacular.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 17). Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada.

Selinker, Larry and Patricia Cukor-Avila (October 1988). “A contextually-based approach to the good and bad language learner.” “Research Perspectives in Adult Language Learning and Acquisition.” The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (October 1988). “Language shift and the acquisition of a vernacular.” El Noveno Congreso del Español en los Estados Unidos. Miami, Florida.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (October 1988). “A different approach to the study of verbal -s in Black English Vernacular.” Michigan Linguistic Society. Lansing, Michigan.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (March 1988). “Determining change in progress vs. stable variation in two studies of Black English Vernacular.” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL). Memphis, Tennessee.

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Cukor-Avila, Patricia (November 1987). “A re-evaluation of resyllabification in Black English.” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL). Atlanta, Georgia.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (March 1987). “The effect of accent on speech and personality judgments.” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL). Washington, D.C.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia, and Nancy Hadaway (March 1987). “Getting Students Involved in Language: Language Arts in the ESL Class.” Thirteenth Annual Spring Bilingual Conference. Texas A&I University. Kingsville, Texas. (workshop)

Cukor-Avila, Patricia, and Nancy Hadaway (February 1987). “Writing and writing apprehension: Encouraging language learners to communicate.” Southwest Conference on Language Teaching. San Antonio, Texas.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (February 1987). “Language socialization and the persistence of non- standard English.” Southeastern Conference on English in the Two-Year College. Jackson, Mississippi. Hadaway, Nancy and Patricia Cukor-Avila (November 1986). “Code-switching: Writing from a dual language perspective.” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL). Atlanta, Georgia.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Nancy Hadaway (November 1986). “Interrelating the Language Arts Skills in the ESL Classroom.” Texas Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TEXTESOL). Houston, Texas. (workshop)

Hadaway, Nancy and Patricia Cukor-Avila (October 1986). “Composing in two languages: A bilingual child’s response.” National Social Science Association (NSSA). San Antonio, Texas.

Rydell (Cukor-Avila), Patricia C. (May 1986). “Language attitudes toward native and non-native English.” Second Annual Bilingual Research Symposium. Pan American University. Edinburgh, Texas.

Rydell (Cukor-Avila), Patricia C. and Nancy Hadaway (April 1986). “Code-switching: English/Spanish variation among bilingual elementary students.” First Annual Spring Conference, “Graduate Education: Directions for the Future.” New Mexico State University. Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Rydell (Cukor-Avila), Patricia C. and Nancy Hadaway (March 1986). “Utilizing multiethnic literature in the reading classroom.” Sam Houston Area Reading Council (SHARC). Huntsville, Texas.

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Rydell (Cukor-Avila), Patricia C. and Nancy Hadaway (February 1986). “Writing and the Second Language Learner.” Twelfth Annual Spring Bilingual Conference. Texas A&I University. Kingsville, Texas. (workshop)

Rydell (Cukor-Avila), Patricia C. (October 1985). “The cultural component in the ESL classroom.” Sam Houston Area Reading Council (SHARC). Huntsville, Texas.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS Cukor-Avila, Patricia. (November 2019). “Linguistic insights from a longitudinal panel survey of African American English 1988-2019.” Plenary: DFW Metroplex Conference. UNT, Denton, TX.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia. (July 2019). “Linguistic insights from a longitudinal panel survey of African American English 1988-2018.” American Dialect Society Lecture, LSA Institute. University of California, Davis.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (April 2015). “Growing INTO and IN African American Vernacular English.” Language Variation in the South IV (LAVIS IV). North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (November 2013). “The evolution of a vernacular: Linguistic variation and change over time in rural African American English Vernacular.” Emory University.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (October 2013). “Temporal reference and verb morphology in the narratives of African American Vernacular English speakers.” DFW Metroplex Conference. Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics (GIAL), Dallas, TX.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (November 2012). “Descriptive and theoretical backgrounds: A review of the principal questions concerning AAVE.” Fae Rawdon Norris Foundation for the Humanities Lecture Series, OK State University, Stillwater, OK.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (November 2012). “Conducting research in an isolated speech community.” Fae Rawdon Norris Foundation for the Humanities Lecture Series, OK State University, Stillwater, OK.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (November 2012). “AAVE: History and prospects.” Fae Rawdon Norris Foundation for the Humanities Lecture Series, OK State University, Stillwater, OK.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Lisa Jeon (May 2012). “Drawing boundaries and mapping attitudes: Where is the best and worst Korean spoken? Mokpo National University, Mokpo, S. Korea.

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Cukor-Avila, Patricia, Lisa Jeon, and Patricia C. Rector (May 2012). “Hick, Hillbilly, Cowboy, Redneck: Perceptions of dialect variation in the Lone Star state.” Baekseok University, Cheonan, S. Korea.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (April 2012). “The interaction of transmission and diffusion in the spread of linguistic forms.” Institute for Research in Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania (IRCS) Friday Noon Colloquium Series. Philadelphia, PA.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (November 2011). “Some structural consequences of diffusion.” Student Linguistic Association of North Texas (SLANT). Denton, TX.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (December 2007). “Linguistic change and diffusion: The evolution of African American English over the past 150 years.” Facultad de Lenguas, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Toluca, México.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (October 2007). “Age-grading and linguistic diffusion.” Plenary Address: New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 36). University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Shobhana Chelliah (May 2007). “Course redesign: LING 3060.” Transforming Large Enrollment Classes Symposium. Denton, TX.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Shobhana Chelliah (July 2005). “Exemplary Course Project 2005.” Impact 2005: 7th Annual WebCT User Conference. San Francisco, CA.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (April 2004). “Language contact and the acquisition of AAVE: A case study of sociolectal adjustment.” Language Variation in the South III (LAVIS III). University of Alabama. Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Cukor-Avila, P. (April 2003). “Accents at work: Linguistic discrimination in employment.” University of Szeged. Szeged, Hungary.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Jenny Corredor (October 2001). “Basic Spanish and Campus Resources.” University of North Texas Human Resources Department National Customer Service Week 2001. Denton, Texas.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (May 2000). “Adding ethnography to the study of language change: Evidence for a small town in Texas). University of York. York, U.K. Cukor-Avila, Patricia (October 1999). “Sociolinguistic fieldwork in community studies.” University of Texas at San Antonio. San Antonio, Texas.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia (June 1999). “Social and linguistic change among African-Americans in rural Texas.” Department of English and American Studies, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.

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Cukor-Avila, Patricia (March 1998). “The application of site studies in ethnographic fieldwork.” Geography Colloquium Series. Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey. (October 1996). “Ethnographic approaches to fieldwork.” NWAV 25. University of Nevada at Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada. (workshop)

FUNDED GRANTS 2018 $5,000 College of Information Research Seed Grant, University of North Texas 2012 $11,141.67 Research and Creativity Enhancement Award, University of North Texas 2012 $500 Small Grant, University of North Texas 2009 $10,865 Research and Creativity Enhancement Award, University of North Texas 2006 $4,933 Research Opportunities Grant, University of North Texas 2006 $1,100 Small Grant, University of North Texas 2005 $2,000 (Co-PI with Shobhana Chelliah) Learning Enhancement Research Project, University of North Texas 2004 $10,000 (Co-PI with Shobhana Chelliah) Learning Enhancement Research Project, University of North Texas 2004 $5,000 Summer Research Grant, University of North Texas 2003 $4,000 Research Opportunities Program, University of North Texas 2002 $75,000 (Co-PI with Shobhana Chelliah) Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund, University of North Texas 2002 $5,000 Research Opportunities Grant, University of North Texas 2001 $4,000 Research Opportunities Grant, University of North Texas 2001 $1,500 Research grant, University of North Texas 2000 $3,000 Research grant, University of North Texas 2000 $3,500 Research Opportunities Grant, University of North Texas 2000 $750 Small Grant, University of North Texas 1999 $3,000 Developing Scholars Award, University of North Texas 1999 $25,000 Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, New York, NY 1999 $30,000 Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC 1999 $750 Stipend for Research Abroad, South Central Modern Language Association 1998 $5,000 Research Initiation Grant, University of North Texas 1998 $3,500 Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, University of North Texas 1997 $3,500 Research Initiation Grant, University of North Texas 1997 $5,000 Unrestricted Gift for research, The Trice Foundation, Irving, TX 1997 $2,300 IBM, Inc. Corporate Community Relations (equipment), Dallas, TX 1997 $3,500 Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, University of North Texas 1996 $3,800 Research Initiation Grant, University of North Texas 1996 $2,000 Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, University of North Texas 1996 $275 Small Grant, University of North Texas 1995 $3,800 Research Initiation Grant, University of North Texas 1995 $3,500 Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, University of North Texas 1994 $435 Small Grant, University of North Texas

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EXTERNAL PROPOSALS SUBMITTED AND NOT FUNDED 2008 $586,355 TIES Initiative, Higher Education for Development (HED), USAID. [only one proposal submitted was funded]

AWARDS AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 2019 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Institute (summer 2019) American Dialect Society Professor 2018 Faculty Development Leave (spring 2018) 2017 Associate Producer for the documentary Talking Black in America 2010 Faculty Development Leave (one semester) 2006 Designated as a Fulbright Senior Scholar (5-year designation) 2005 WebCT Exemplary Course Award, WebCT, Inc. (LING 4040/5040 General Linguistics) 2005 Outstanding Online Course and Teacher Award, University of North Texas (LING 3060 Principles of Language Study, LING 4040/5040 General Linguistics) 2002 Faculty Development Leave (one semester) 1990-1993 American Dialect Society Presidential Honorary Membership

RADIO/TELEVISION/FILM INTERVIEWS Talking Black in America (first screened in 2017). Interviewed for two segments in the documentary.

Fox4 Dallas, TX. February 10, 2013. Interviewed by Dan Godwin for a segment about the future of the Texas accent.

PBS-TV Aired (for the first time) Jan. 5, 2005. Interviewed by Robin MacNeil in a segment about the Springville Project in his 3-hour documentary “Do You Speak American?”

KHOU-TV CBS, Houston, Texas. Aired July 2004. Interviewed by Dave Fehling for a story on the effect that accent has on a person’s job status.

WB33 Evening News, Dallas, Texas. Aired February 8, 2004. Interviewed by Maria Luce for a segment on teenage slang.

KERA National Public Radio, Dallas, Texas. September 28, 2000. Interviewed live on “The Evening Talk Show” by Rick Vanderslice (with Dianne Markley) about the project on regional accent discrimination in hiring practices.

KUHF National Public Radio, Houston, Texas. September 11, 2000. Interviewed by Capella Tucker (with Dianne Markley) about the project on regional accent discrimination in hiring practices. KURV Radio, Edinburgh, Texas. September 8, 2000. Interviewed live by Davis Rankin (with Dianne Markley) about the project on regional accent discrimination in hiring practices.

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Texas Public Radio – Texas Matters. August 22, 2000. Interviewed by Dave Davies about the project on regional accent discrimination in hiring practices.

NBC 5 KXAS-TV, Fort Worth, Texas. August 16, 2000. Live interview (with Dianne Markley) on First at Four News about the project on regional accent discrimination in hiring practices.

WXYP CBS Radio, Detroit, Michigan. August 14, 2000. Interviewed by John McCulloch about the project on regional accent discrimination in hiring practices.

Money Matters – Nationally syndicated radio program. August 7, 2000. Interviewed by Joseph Slife about the project on regional accent discrimination in hiring practices.

WGST Radio, Atlanta, Georgia. August 7, 2000. Interviewed by Tom Hughes about the project on regional accent discrimination in hiring practices.

TXCN – Texas Cable Network. July 20, 2000. Video taped interview (with Dianne Markley) for a story about the project on regional accent discrimination in hiring practices. Aired the week of August 21st.

KNTU Radio, Denton, Texas. July 19, 2000. Interviewed by Mike Dempsey for “North Texas Now” about the project on regional accent discrimination in hiring practices.

KRLD Radio, Dallas, Texas. July 10, 2000. Interviewed by Mike Rogers about the project on regional accent discrimination in hiring practices.

KNTU Radio, Denton, Texas. June 1998. Interviewed by Mike Dempsey for “North Texas Now” about the Linguistics Division program providing ESL classes for UNT custodial workers.

KNTU Radio, Denton, Texas. February 1997. Interviewed by Carla Marion for “Vocal Point” about the Ebonics issue.

WB33 (KDAF-TV), Dallas, Texas. February 1997. Interviewed by Sandra Daniels for “DFW Close Up” about the Ebonics issue.

STUDENT ADVISING AND MENTORING UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP MENTOR Ashley Balcazar. (2018-19) “The Passive Side of Sexual Violence: A Linguistic Analysis of ICTY “Landmark Cases”

MA THESIS DIRECTION Melissa Robinson. “Illegal is not a noun: The Role of Nominalization and Genericity in Pejoration.” (MA Linguistics, May 2018)

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Laura Christian. “Reading beyond the words: How implementing ESL methods during guided reading affect a Deaf student’s language acquisition process” (MA Linguistics, August 2013) Lisa Jeon. “Drawing boundaries and revealing language attitudes: The relationship of language and place in Korea.” (MA Linguistics, December 2012) Melody Trowell. “Linguistic Profiling through Animated Film.” (MA Linguistics, May 2007) Amanda Aguilar. “Present tense marking as a synopsis of Southern American English: Plural verbal -s and third singular -s.” (MA Linguistics, May 2005) Brooke Ehrhardt. “Front and back vowel mergers in Southern American English.” (MA Linguistics, May 2004) Dianne Markley. “Linguistic diversity in the workplace: How accent affects perceptions of job applicants.” (MA Linguistics, August 2000) Jeff Coleman. “Inner-city English: The effect that urban English has on speakers of English as a second language.” (MA ESL, August 1998)

MA THESIS COMMITTEE MEMBER Madeline Fink (MA Anthropology, Dec. 2018) Rachel Sales (MA ESL, May 2012) Shane Bell (MA RTVF, member through September 2012) Maite Martínez García (MA ESL, December 2010) Cody Fernandez (MA ESL, August 2006). Tao-Chih Wen (MA Linguistics, August 2005). Julie Torres (MA ESL, December 2004). Karen Yates. (MA ESL, December 2002). Janine Chere Bischof (MA ESL, August 1999). Julia Chernova (MA Communication Studies, December 1998), Minor professor.

SCHOLARLY PAPER DIRECTION Gina Collins. “No whining: Linguistic values in flood narratives from Grand Forks, North Dakota.” (MA ESL, August 1999).

PH.D. DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER Ruby Wang (Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction), Minor Professor. Stephen George (Ph.D. Higher Education 2017), Minor Professor. Tamica Pllard (Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction 2011), Minor Professor. Stella Belsky (Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction 2006), Minor Professor. Pataporn Tapinta (Ph.D. Reading 2006), Minor Professor. Kyungsim Hong (Ph.D. Reading 2005), Minor Professor. Patricia Leek. (Ph.D. Secondary Education 2000), Committee member.

HONORS THESIS DIRECTION Macy Park. “Anachronistic anarchy: A linguistic character analysis of Shinichiro Watanabe’s Samurai Champloo.” (BA Integrative Studies, May 2014)

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MENTORED STUDENT PRESENTATIONS (REFEREED) Wahlert, Kristyne and Ashley Balcazar. (April 2019). “The Passive Side of Sexual Violence: A Linguistic Analysis of ICTY ‘Landmark Cases’” Poster. Multi-Disciplinary Research Symposium (MIRS), UNT College of Information.

Wahlert, Kristyne and Ashley Balcazar. (November 2018). “The Passive Side of Sexual Violence: A Linguistic Analysis of ICTY ‘Landmark Cases’” DFW Metroplex Conference. TAMU Commerce.

Melissa Robinson. (November 2016). “‘Money attracts the female you want, struggle attracts the woman you need’: The pejoration of female (n).”

Melissa Robinson. (November 2015). “female = bitch: A preliminary study of the pejoration of female.” DFW Metroplex Conference. UNT.

Patricia C. Rector (October 2013). “Almost Classy to Mumbly White Trash: How Texans perceive dialects in the Lone Star State.” DFW Metroplex Conference. Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics (GIAL), Dallas, TX.

Patricia C. Rector (April 2013). “Almost Classy to Mumbly White Trash: Perceptions of dialects in the Lone Star State.” American Association of Geographers (AAG). Los Angeles, CA.

Lisa Jeon (April 2013). “Geographic Information Systems for perceptual dialectology.” American Association of Geographers (AAG). Los Angeles, CA.

Lisa Jeon (October 2011). “Drawing boundaries and revealing language attitudes: The relationship of language and place in Korea.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation 40 (NWAV). Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Gina Collins (November 1998). “The Flood of ‘97: Stories from Grand Forks, North Dakota.” South Central American Dialect Society. New Orleans, Louisiana.

Jeff Coleman (October 1997). “Language contact in the inner city: The acquisition of AAVE features by bilingual Hispanic adolescents.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation 26 (NWAV). Université Laval, Québec, Québec City, Canada.

Kristen Herchert (March 1996). “Bleach will kill AIDS and other folklore remedies: An analysis of discourse events that emerge from site studies.” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL), College Station, Texas.

Rosella Piersanti (March 1996). “Sluts or dimwits: The relationship between gender and respondents’ judgments of formal and informal speech.” Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL), College Station, Texas.

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STUDENT PRACTICAL TRAINING/EMPLOYMENT 2006-2010 Worked with the UAEM Liaison Office in the College of Arts and Sciences to establish an ESL program at the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (UAEM) in Toluca, México. This program fell under the umbrella of the larger liaison agreement between UNT and UAEM. As the supervisor of the UNT/UAEM internship program I: • Met regularly to discuss and assess program development and concerns with the Directors of the UAEM Liaison Office in CAS. • Supervised the UNT lecturer who was also working on program development. • Organized videoconferences for UAEM faculty and students. • Organized “field trips” to Toluca for UNT students interested in the Toluca internship. • Collaborated with UAEM professors to develop faculty/student exchanges.

1999-2008 Established and supervise Academic Assistants for the Comprehensive Language Program to provide practical training for ESL Master’s students.

On going Established continuing relationships with local Community Colleges and other agencies which employ ESL instructors in order to market our students. This has resulted in several students getting jobs at SMU, Richland Community College, Brookhaven Community College, the Intensive English Language Institute at UNT, the UNT English Department, and in private industry.

On going Collaborate with Curriculum Coordinators at the Intensive English Language Institute to establish on-going programs designed to give Master’s of ESL students a chance to work with IELI students in an informal setting.

1998-2007 Expanded the Comprehensive Language Program to include Spanish classes for UNT faculty and staff. UNT students taught some of these classes. As the Director of the Spanish for Faculty and Staff program I: • worked with staff in Human Resources to coordinate funding for the classes. • had budgetary responsibility for all funds from Human Resources and student fees. • scheduled classes each semester and during the summer. • hired all instructors and responsible for signing their time sheets. • met with instructors about the classes (content, books, etc.). • responded to all inquires (email, phone) about the classes.

2003-04 Worked with the Community in Schools volunteer program in Little Elm ISD to establish a program for MA students in the Practicum in ESL class (LING 5340) to student-teach ESL at Little Elm High School.

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ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICE UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE, AND DEPARTMENT SERVICE 2019- Chair, PAC/RPTC College of Information 2019- Chair, Enrollment and Retention Committee, Department of Linguistics 2018-2019 Chair, PAC/RPTC Department of Linguistics 2018: Member, Linguistics Search Committee (Computational Linguistics) 2016-2017: Interim Chair, Department of Linguistics 2015: Chair, Linguistics Search Committees (Language Acquisition, Lecturer) 2015: Coordinator, DFW Metroplex Linguistics Conference 2015-2016: Co-chair, College of Information Strategic Plan Task Force 2015-2016: Member, College of Information Academic Services Task Force 2015-2016: Member, College of Information Technical Services Group Task Force 2015-2016: Member, College of Information Communications Task Force 2014-2016: Director, Linguistics Program, College of Information 2014-2016: Member, College of Information RPTC 2014-2015: Member, Strategic Plan Committee, College of Information 2013-2015: Faculty Senate – At Large member 2013-2014: UNT coordinator for the DFW Metroplex Linguistics Conference 2013: Chair, Linguistics Search Committee (visiting Asst. Prof.) 2012- Faculty Advisor to Student Linguistics Association of North Texas (SLANT) 2012- Director, Linguistics Colloquium Series 2012: Chair, Linguistics Search Committee (visiting Asst. Prof.) 2011-2012: Member, Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Culture PAC 2011-2012: Member, Graduate School Diversity Advisory Committee 2009-2010: Member, MLK Year of Service Committee 2008-2010: Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Linguistics and Technical Communication 2008-2010: Member, Department of Linguistics and Technical Communication Executive Committee 2008-2011: Member, Department of Linguistics and Technical Communication RPTC 2008-2011: Member, Department of Linguistics and Technical Communication PAC 2008-2011: Member, College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Curriculum Committee 2008-2010: Member, University Graduate Council MDF Awards Committee 2008-2009: Chair, Linguistics Search Committee 2007-2010: Member, University Graduate Council 2007-2010: Member, University Graduate Council Admissions and Policy sub-committee 2007-2008: Member, Department of Foreign Languages PAC 2006-2007: Member, VP for Research Search Committee 2006-2008: Appointed Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) Senior Fellow 2006: Faculty Mentor for Foreign Languages 2006: Member, Department of Foreign Languages PAC 2006: Member, review panel for the UNT Hispanic and Global Initiatives Award 2005-2008: Member, College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Curriculum Committee

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2005-2006: Member, College of Arts and Sciences Strategic Plan Committee 2005-2006: Chair, Department Chair Search Committee 2005-2006: Chair, Linguistics Search Committee 2004-2005: Member, Linguistics Search Committee 2004-2014: Faculty Mentor for Linguistics 2001-2008: Chair, Linguistics Division, Department of English 2001-2008: Member, Department of English Executive Committee 2001-2006: Member, Department of English PAC 2001-2002: Chair, Linguistics Search Committee 2000-2001: Member, Department Graduate Committee 2000-2001: Member, Anglo Saxon Search Committee 1998-1999: Member, African American Literature and Hispanic Literature Search Committees 1998-2012: Co-Chair, Linguistics Colloquium (with Dr. Shobhana Chelliah) 1997: Mentor, McNair Scholar Program 1996-1997: Chair, Linguistics Search Committee 1996-1997: Member, 20th Century American Literature and 19th Century Victorian Literature Search Committees 1996-1997: Member, Department of English Graduate Committee 1996: Member, University of North Texas Library Focus Group 1995-1997: Member, Department of English Undergraduate Committee 1994-1995: Member Linguistics Search Committee 1994: Member, Ad Hoc Library Committee, Department of English

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION 2019- Co-Associate Editor Language, Language and Public Policy section 2019 Promotion Reviewer, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN 2005-2009 Member, American Dialect Society Executive Committee 2003-2009 Member, Editorial Board, American Speech, Duke University Press Ongoing Abstract Reviewer, New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV); American Dialect Society (ADS) Ongoing Grant Reviewer, National Science Foundation Ongoing Reviewer for submissions to Language Variation and Change, American Speech, Journal of Sociolinguistics, Language in Society, Language, Routledge Publishers 2005 Tenure and Promotion Reviewer, York University, Toronto, Canada

COMMUNITY SERVICE 2003-2008 Director, Comprehensive Language Program. 1998-2003 Co-director, Comprehensive Language Program. This program provides free English as a Second Language classes at the Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center to community residents and Spanish as a Second Language classes on campus for UNT faculty and staff. 2000-2002 Member, Denton Chamber of Commerce Multicultural Committee.

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REFERENCES Dr. Guy Bailey President, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Harlingen, TX Dr. William Labov Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Dr. Sali Tagliamonte Professor and Chair, Linguistics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Dr. John Baugh Margaret Bush Wilson Professor in Arts and Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, MO Dr. Dennis Preston Regents Professor Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK and University Distinguished Professor Emeritus Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Dr. Salikoko Mufwene Professor of Linguistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL